Titus 1:7 -- Polysyndeton?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue May 30 11:05:31 EDT 2000
At 4:17 PM +0200 5/30/00, Kevin Smith wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>MH AUQADH, MH ORGILON, MH PAROINON, MH PLHKTHN, MH AISCROKERDH.
>
>Is the 5-fold repetion of MH an example of polysyndeton (see BDF #460.3)
>or is it grammatically required? What follows in 1:8 is surely an example
>of asyndeton (BDF #460.2). It seems as if the author is deliberately using
>contrasting devices to strengthen the contrast between the two lists, the
>vices and the virtues.
Yes, I'd call this a pretty clear instance of of polysyndeton inasmuch as
every word negated is a predicate word, and you are surely right to mark
1:8 as displaying asyndeton. Yes, I think this is rhetorically deliberate
and emphatic.
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